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Hurricanes: Their Nature and Impacts on Society - Climate Science ...

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additi<strong>on</strong>al readings 194-7<br />

aerodynamic roughness 81<br />

Alicia 20, 24<br />

Andrew<br />

damages <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> casualties 163-70<br />

forecast 3-6, 156<br />

evacuati<strong>on</strong> 158-62<br />

track <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> intensity 156- 7<br />

impact 7-9, 163<br />

building codes 170-6<br />

direct damages 163-9<br />

insurance 176-7<br />

relati<strong>on</strong> between central pressure <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g><br />

wind speed 80<br />

resp<strong>on</strong>se 10-13, 177<br />

recovery 177-8<br />

restorati<strong>on</strong> 179-80<br />

assessment of vulnerability 59<br />

incidence assessment 65<br />

societal vulnerability to tropical<br />

cycl<strong>on</strong>es 64-5<br />

defined 64<br />

tropical cycl<strong>on</strong>e risk assessment<br />

59-64<br />

atmospheric pressure 76<br />

defined 68<br />

building codes 143, 170-6<br />

Camille 3, 19-20, 23-4, 39, 49<br />

catastrophe models 59-62<br />

centrifugal force<br />

defined 72<br />

climate<br />

defined 139-41, 185-6<br />

climate change 47-8, 185-6<br />

community planning 145<br />

c<strong>on</strong>densati<strong>on</strong> 71<br />

Index<br />

c<strong>on</strong>vergence<br />

defined 69<br />

illustrated 70<br />

coriolis effect<br />

defined 68, 100<br />

illustrated 69-70<br />

criteria for development <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g><br />

intensificati<strong>on</strong> 87-90<br />

damage estimati<strong>on</strong> 134-6<br />

damages in US (normalized, 1925-1995)<br />

198<br />

deaths <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> damages, US (1900-1995)<br />

202<br />

30 deadliest, US (1900-1995) 199<br />

30 costliest, US (1900-1995)<br />

200-1<br />

decay 79-81<br />

decisi<strong>on</strong>-maker<br />

defined 141<br />

descriptive assessments 115-17<br />

divergence<br />

defined 69<br />

illustrated 70<br />

depositi<strong>on</strong> 71<br />

El Nmo-Southem Oscillati<strong>on</strong> (ENSO)<br />

109<br />

evacuati<strong>on</strong> 141, 158-62<br />

evaporati<strong>on</strong> of water 81<br />

exposure assessment 65<br />

extratropical cycl<strong>on</strong>e<br />

defined 15<br />

extreme weather events 25-6, 140-1<br />

eye definiti<strong>on</strong> 72<br />

illustrati<strong>on</strong> of 74, 78<br />

satellite images of 75<br />

size 88

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